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Mount Pleasant business brokers and M&A advisors
Mount Pleasant owners weighing a sale of their profitable company can have MDR & Associates in the role of M&A advisor, answerable to the seller and no one else. We handle everything from pricing the business to closing day. Advisors drive over from Frisco, where our corporate office is, and meet you in the Titus County seat, at your business or somewhere out of view.
Titus County's trade center and the companies that serve it
Mount Pleasant was founded on May 11, 1848, to be the seat of Titus County, and it is still the county's largest city, with 16,047 residents at the 2020 census. Titus County on its own makes up the Mount Pleasant micropolitan area, so the city is where the surrounding countryside comes for shopping, schooling, medical care and county business. Walmart chose it for the company's first store in Texas, and the downtown carries the Texas Main Street City designation.
Two institutions give the city steady footing: Northeast Texas Community College and Titus Regional Medical Center. Around anchors like these, a county seat builds up exactly the kinds of companies buyers ask us for: service contractors, suppliers, maintenance firms and professional practices that bill the same customers year after year.
Mount Pleasant at a glance
- CountyTitus County
- Metro areaMount Pleasant micropolitan area
- Companies we sell$3M–$100M
- Typical transaction3–9 months
- Fee if we do not closeNone
What a buyer from outside Northeast Texas will want to understand
Most acquirers of a $3 million to $100 million company will not know Mount Pleasant well. Some are individuals relocating to East Texas, some are capital groups, and some are private equity firms adding to a company they already own. Each will ask the same core questions: how much of your revenue repeats, how dependent the business is on you personally, and whether three years of books reconcile with the tax returns. Our answers go into three things: a confidential package describing the company, a recast of the financials that strips out owner perks and one-off costs, and an HD video produced in-house, so someone in Houston or Chicago understands the company before the first visit.
Price comes from competition. We try to have competing letters of intent arriving together, every offer is walked through with you face to face, and a principal attends whenever terms are argued. If your company provides services to other businesses, our business services page shows the kind of companies we sell.
Starting quietly in a close-knit county seat
The first step costs nothing and tells no one. The online valuation snapshot is quick and returns a rough range. After that comes a private discovery meeting: we read three years of statements and tell you where we think the value falls, from low to high. When we doubt a company can reach full value, we tell the owner and step back rather than take the engagement. Other Northeast Texas towns are covered on our East Texas region page.
What we sell in and around Mount Pleasant
Industry decides the buyer, the multiple and the diligence. These are the four sectors we work in most.
Manufacturing
Equipment, real estate, backlog and customer concentration decide what a manufacturer is worth.
How buyers value itHome Services
Plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping and other home service companies — where repeat customers, crews and technicians decide the price.
How buyers value itDistribution & Wholesale
Inventory, working capital and supplier agreements decide what a distributor is worth.
How buyers value itBusiness Services
Recurring revenue and owner dependence separate a two-times business from a six-times business.
How buyers value itStraight answers
Questions Mount Pleasant owners ask before they sell
Answered in full by the advisors who run the sales. Every Texas-wide answer.
The process
How a Mount Pleasant sale runs
Ten steps in four stages, typically three to nine months. Click any step to see it in full.
- Prepare
- Go to market
- Negotiate
- Close
We also work with owners near Mount Pleasant
Questions owners in Mount Pleasant ask
Will buyers pay less because my customers are spread across rural Titus County instead of a big city?
Not necessarily. Buyers price risk and repeat revenue more than city size. A Mount Pleasant company with many customers, none of them dominant, often looks safer than a city firm leaning on two large accounts. What hurts value is thin records or an owner who holds every relationship personally, and both can be fixed before going to market.
In a town where people know each other, how do you keep a sale from getting out?
The first document any buyer reads leaves out your name, street and anything else that would give you away. A buyer who wants more has to register, put a signed NDA on file and fill in a financial profile that proves the funds exist. Site visits happen after hours or off the premises, and you always know in advance who is coming.
Talk to an advisor about your Mount Pleasant company
Four fields, a reply the same business day, and nothing shared with anyone. If you would rather talk, call (855) 637-2776.